The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-06-18
WOMEN WORKERS.
Tho Great Host of Female Toilers En-
ployed in Various Pursuits.

Tho Great Host of Female Toilers En-.
ployed in Various Pursuits.
The last census revealed the fact that
there are in the United States 2,647, OOC
women bread-winners, OF, as the census
cables put it, women pursuing gainful
occupations" that is, working for wages
or pecuniary compensation by the day,
week, month or year. This great army
has representatives in every variety OF
labor. In the fields. as agricultural la
borers they number 594, $40, the major
ity of these being employed in the South
in cotton fields and on rice, cane, corn
and tobacco plantations; but in the
North over so, 900 women are registered
as laborers on farms and in gardens,
and in beekeeping, dairying, fruit and
berry raising, and in vineyards and
hopyards. Besides these they are more
than 60, 000 women working in the South
as day laborers in cotton-factories, sor-
ghum-mills, tobacco curing and manu-
featuring establishments, and in stores
and warehouses where heavy manual
labor, out doors and in, is required.
After this great host of day laborers
come the laundresses. more than 100,-
900 strong; domestic servants. nearly
100000; cotton, silk and wooden mill
operatives, 1872, 900; women in boot and
shoe Histories, more than q, 900; clerks,
saleswomen, and accountants, $4,000;
and then 1000 dressmakers and
milliners, many of whom are probably
plain sewing
In almostevery branch of manufact-
uring womel are largely employed.
They work blythe thousand in agricul-
tural implemem shops, in bookbinderies,
in printing Offices, as carpetmakers,
cigarmakers, clock and watch makers,
glovemakers, hanessmakers, gold and
silver workers, hit and cap makers,
straw-workers, and restaurant keep
ers. In immense numbers they are en-
loved at the sewing machine and as
shirt, cuff and collar makers, and by
the thousand they work in telegraph
and telephone offices.
Women are acting, according to the
census, as oystermen, fishermen, gun
and lock smiths, canal boatmen, paper
hangers, miners and iron and steel
workers. They are commercial travel
ers. book-agents, brokers, bankers, rail
way officials, packers, manufacturers
and officials of manufacturing compa-
MES. There are more than $4,000
women commercial dealers and traders,
10000 nurses, 10000 clearinghouse
keepers, and more than 1000 hotel
keepers. Women are acting as archi-
tects, chemists, assayers, dentists, de-
signers, draughtsmen and inventors.
One thousand six hundred and fifteen
are engaged as employees in charitable
| institutions; there are a few hundred
women working as professional jour
nalists and as authors, 1000 and more
are artists and teachers of art, more
than 1900 are actresses, and IS, 900 are
musicians and teachers of music. Five
thousand one hundred and ninety-foul
women are Government clerks, and
2,172 are officers of the Government
There are more than 1000 women phys
icians and surgeons, seyenty-fve law
yers, and 165 ministers of religion, 2lt
stock-raisers and 56,S09 free and indie
dependent farmers and planters. The
census reports Gall of these figures are
taken from the census tables of 1880,
154, 375 women teachers-a great hos
representing an immense amount of the
highest and most beneticent work
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